Mommy's Boys

The clues are easy to spot. If your mother in law cooks better than you, sews better than you, keeps a cleaner house better than you and looks after the kids better than you do, then you have a problem.

The problem isn't one of your doing, you've just had the extreme misfortune to marry a mommy's boy.

He's usually insipid, he whines about everything and he's a general waste of space. More often than not you wonder why you ever hooked up with him in the first place and whenever you and his mother slap gauntlets in each other's faces, he's the one sitting on the fence saying "I know what you mean" to both of you. He lacks a spine and intelligence and, more importantly, he lacks a mind of his own.

One wonders what these women do to their sons to make them the total waste of space that they end up being. What normal person wants their child to hang around them 24/7, especially when their child is in their 40's? Why aren't these women encouraging their sons to do their own thing, look after themselves and, last but certainly not least, teach them how to cut the damn apron strings that keep their son tied to them?

Unfortunately there's not a lot you can do. No amount of understanding, quiet compliance, resignation or out and out battles will change your "mommy's boy" partner's thoughts on his mother. Most mommy's boys don't even think they have a problem as their mother stuffs them full of cookies and hot chocolate and tell them the same thing while you, the errant wife, sits at home with the children waiting for the big baby's return home. Most of us have been there at some stage or another.

So what do you do? Well you only have two choices. Shut up and hope it gets better (ie the hell bitch from the monster dimension dies) or you leave him and find yourself a real man with a personality that's not thinly disguised in sensible shoes and a house dress.

Posted By: Lint | 02:21 PM | Lint

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